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Birding Mkuze

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At some point, I almost convinced myself that it would be a good idea to publish a coffee table photo book just showing Red-billed Oxpecker on various animals. Cattle Egrets using public transport. Alone time. Taking a bath …. African Pygmy Kingfisher. Brown-hooded Kingfisher.

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Female Zebra Finches are one-male birds in the wild, but not so in captivity. The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. The first bird feathers may have been for showiness more than transportation. News Bell Miner Birds Eurasian Blackbird kenya Zebra Finches'

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.